Why executive board membership in academic clubs helps students get interviews

Author:

Dadario BernardORCID,Sanner BretORCID

Abstract

PurposeThe paper aims to improve students' job placements, higher education institutions invest considerable resources and their students spend considerable time in academic clubs. Yet, quantitative findings on the effect of students' academic club involvement on job placements are mixed. This paper aims to help resolve ambiguity regarding the effect of academic clubs on job placements.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted two studies. The first developed an inductive theoretical model by interviewing recruiters and managers and extending status characteristics theory. The second study is an experiment that tested the first study's inductive model and increased the model's generalizability.FindingsThe results of both studies show that executive board membership, but not general membership, increases perceptions of applicants' emotional control and public speaking ability, and thereby increases applicants' chances of getting an interview.Practical implicationsAdministrators should consider shifting resources away from academic clubs that only benefit a few students and toward programs that help more students develop transferable skills. Students should prioritize joining clubs in which students think students can become executive board members. Academic clubs should require general members to have responsibilities that help members develop transferable skills. Industry may need to make more competitive offers to hire executive board members.Originality/valueThe two studies contribute to research on academic clubs by suggesting that the results of previous academic club membership studies are mixed, because only executive board members are more likely to get interviews. The results also highlight the importance of applying status characteristics theory to future academic club research.

Publisher

Emerald

Subject

Education,Life-span and Life-course Studies

Reference28 articles.

1. Under-represented college students and extracurricular involvement: the effects of various student organizations on academic performance;Social Psychology of Education,2008

2. Clarifying the meaning of extracurricular activity: a literature review of definitions;American Journal of Business Education,2012

3. Status characteristics and social interaction;American Sociological Review,1972

4. Diversity and inequality in management teams: a review and integration of research on vertical and horizontal member differences;Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior,2018

5. Participation in student activities and achievement: a covariance structural analysis;The Journal of Educational Research,1990

同舟云学术

1.学者识别学者识别

2.学术分析学术分析

3.人才评估人才评估

"同舟云学术"是以全球学者为主线,采集、加工和组织学术论文而形成的新型学术文献查询和分析系统,可以对全球学者进行文献检索和人才价值评估。用户可以通过关注某些学科领域的顶尖人物而持续追踪该领域的学科进展和研究前沿。经过近期的数据扩容,当前同舟云学术共收录了国内外主流学术期刊6万余种,收集的期刊论文及会议论文总量共计约1.5亿篇,并以每天添加12000余篇中外论文的速度递增。我们也可以为用户提供个性化、定制化的学者数据。欢迎来电咨询!咨询电话:010-8811{复制后删除}0370

www.globalauthorid.com

TOP

Copyright © 2019-2024 北京同舟云网络信息技术有限公司
京公网安备11010802033243号  京ICP备18003416号-3